In sampling, I selected wrestlers from 4 of the major pro wrestling promotions in the United States. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Total Nonstop Action/ Impact wrestling (TNA/IMPACT! Wrestling), All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and Ring of Honor (ROH). Due to the time period of these promotions being vastly different, I choose 11 wrestlers from WWE, 5 wrestlers from IMPACT! Wrestling, 3 wrestlers from ROH, and 5 wrestlers from AEW. For each wrestler I attempted to find at least two televised segments/matches for the wrestlers in order to see how they are presented to the audience.
Episodes from WWE
MVP (Black Stereotyped wrestler)
- Smackdown! October 26th, 2006
- Smackdown! March 21st, 2008
- Monday Night Raw November 9th, 2009
- Friday Night Smackdown! May 25th, 2007
Cryme Tyme (Black stereotyped tag team: two wrestlers working as a team):
Monday Night Raw, October 16th, 2006
Monday Night Raw, November 13th, 2006
Friday Night Smackdown! June 29th, 2007
Monday Night Raw July 7th, 2008
Friday Night Smackdown! April 2nd, 2010
Eddie Guerrero (Mexican Stereotype):
- Friday Night Smackdown! August 28, 2003
- Friday Night Smackdown! September 4, 2003
- Friday Night Smackdown! February 12, 2004
Sheamus (Stereotypical Irish wrestler)
- WWE ECW June 30, 2009
- Monday Night Raw, March 30, 2015
- WWE backstage, Youtube January 31, 2010.
Shinsuke Nakamura (stereotypical Japanese wrestler)
- Smackdown Live! September 19th, 2017.
- Smackdown Live! April 10th, 2018
Kofi Kingston (Stereotypical Jamaican who is actually Ghanaian)
- WWE ECW YouTube, December 20, 2008
- WWE ECW January 22, 2008
- Monday Night Raw October 19th, 2009
- Monday Night Raw November 10th, 2014.
- WrestleMania, April 7, 2019.
- Friday Night Smackdown! October 4, 2019.
Carlito (Caribbean stereotype wrestler)
- Friday Night Smackdown! September 4th, 2004
- Friday Night Smackdown! October 7th, 2004
- Friday Night Smackdown! April 14th, 2005
Rey Mysterio (Luchador stereotype wrestler)
- WWE ROYAL RUMBLE January 29th, 2006
- WWE WRESTLEMANIA 22, April 2nd, 2006.
- Friday Night Smackdown! October 26th, 2007
- Friday Night Smackdown! May 22nd, 2009
Booker T (Black stereotyped wrestler)
- Monday Night Raw March 3rd, 2003
- Friday Night Smackdown! May 12th, 2005
Vince McMahon (Owner of the company and cultural appropriation wrestler)
- WWE Survivor Series, November 27th, 2005
- Monday Night Raw April 30th , 2007
- WWE ECW May 1st, 2007
- Monday Night Raw May 7th, 2007
Muhammad Hassan (stereotypical Middle eastern wrestler)
- Monday Night Raw December 13th, 2004
- Friday Night Smackdown! July 6th, 2007
Episodes from TNA/IMPACT! Wrestling
Ron Killings (Black stereotype)
- NWA-TNA #8 August 7, 2002
- NWA-TNA #10 August 21st, 2002
- TNA IMPACT! August 20, 2004.
- TNA Bound for Glory October 14, 2007
Okada (Stereotypical Asian wrestler)
- TNA Xplosion June 4th, 2010
- TNA Xplosion May 17th, 2010
LAX (Stereotypical Latinx group)
- TNA IMPACT! October 26, 2006
- IMPACT! Wrestling July 5th, 2018.
- IMPACT! Wrestling August 16th, 2018.
Kongo Kong (Stereotypical Black wrestler as a beast)
- IMPACT! Wrestling April 13th, 2017
- IMPACT! Wrestling July 27th, 2017
- IMPACT! Wrestling December 14th, 2017
Rich Swann (stereotyped funk Black character)
- IMPACT! Wrestling June 28th, 2018
- IMPACT! Wrestling April 15th, 2021
Episodes from ROH
Great Muta (Japanese Stereotype)
- ROH: Final Battle December 27th, 2003.
- ROH G1 SUPERCARD April 6th, 2019.
Homicide (Latinx Gangster Stereotype)
- ROH The Last Stand January 29th, 2004.
- ROH Final Battle December 23rd, 2006.
- ROH Final Battle December 27th, 2003.
Shane Taylor (Black underground stereotype)
- ROH TV December 6th, 2021.
- ROH TV December 6th, 2021.
- ROH Final Battle December 11th, 2021
Episodes from AEW
Private Party (Black stereotyped tag team)
- Being The Elite “Intermission” June 28th. 2021
- AEW DARK August 10th, 2021
- AEW Dynamite August 11th, 2021
Lucha bros (Mexican Luchador tag team)
AEW DARK November 10th, 2020
AEW ALL OUT, September 5th, 2021
AEW Dynamite October 16th, 2021
Lucha Bros AEW ALL OUT Post-Show Media Scrum September 5th, 2021
Santana and Ortiz (Puerto Rican tag team)
- AEW COUNTDOWN: FULL GEAR November 9th, 2019
- AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest 2 July 21st, 2021
- AEW DARK November 30th, 2021.
- AEW Dynamite February 9th, 2022
Cody Rhodes (the stereotypical patriotic wrestler)
- AEW Revolution February 29th, 2020
- AEW Dynamite May 12th, 2021
- AEW Dynamite December 25th, 2021
The acclaimed (Stereotypical Hip hop wrestlers)
- AEW Dynamite December 16th, 2020
- AEW DARK September 7th, 2021
- AEW DARK February 14th , 2022
- AEW Dynamite February 16th, 2022